Crash City

[TallyHo]

Since updating earlier today, My icon starts to bounce in the dock, then it just quits out with even an error message. I downloaded and re-updated, and same thing.

?

[Netherby]

No problems here.. OSX 10.4.5

[ March 23, 2006, 02:55 AM: Message edited by: Netherby ]

[Abidubi]

None here either. Actually more stable. You might need to repair permisions or something. Maybe look for all files associated to drop team (like the .plist if there is one) and trash'em incase they somehow got corrupted. Otherwise I have no idea why your getting that problem.

[Netherby]

I saw some OpenAL files get downloaded with the update... Not sure if they were there before, you could try deleting them so it loads the system ones instead, but of course that could also make the game not work.. tongue.gif

But it can't hurt to try if the game isn't working anyway...

[ClaytoniousRex]

Tally, send us your Dropteam.log and we will try to see what's happening. What version of OS X are you on?

[Netherby]

I would just like to say I'm really happy with the patch, not a single crash since I updated :D

Well not yet *touch wood*

[weasello]

I'd really like this bug fixed so I can continue blowing up TallyHo. :D

[TallyHo]

10.4.5
Actually. I don't even have a crash log. There is not one in my apps folder. The icon just flickers and then disappears.
hrm. I remember another game updating its graphics files and then doing something like this.

[TallyHo]

<-- misses the warmth of weasels's "death from everywhere."

[Abidubi]

uhhhh... just a thought. Where was the update application when you ran it? Was it in our dropteam folder? You have to have those little files in the same place as the application you click on to launch. By default it doesn't have a folder, so I made one for it. You should have 7 items total exculing the pdf. (if your update application is in there too)

[TallyHo]

no dice.
the new install , all in one folder, loads fine. then I update but the result is the same. bouncing icon, no icon. no crash log is generated.

[ March 23, 2006, 02:38 PM: Message edited by: TallyHo ]

[Abidubi]

thats just frekin weird. Hmmmm. You could always erase your entire hard drive tongue.gif

[Bernhardt]

Do you know any good voodoo doctors?

[TallyHo]

I'm still not cooking. The old version is fine, so I'm rolling with that till all the other downloaders figure out the update trick and it's just moi and my stiff bot friends.
alas.

[ClaytoniousRex]

If you're willing to follow this procedure, Tally, then it will identify the problem:

Open Terminal and do this:
</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">cd /Applications
DropTeam.app/Contents/MacOS/DropTeam &gt; TallyHo.txt</pre>[/QUOTE]Then post the contents of the file TallyHo.txt here or email it to me.

[TallyHo]

Last login: Thu Mar 23 16:54:16 on console
/Applications/DropTeam/DropTeam.app/Contents/MacOS/DropTeam; exit
Welcome to Darwin!
Waffle-Iron:~ justinhallman$ /Applications/DropTeam/DropTeam.app/Contents/MacOS/DropTeam; exit
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenAL.framework/Versions/A/OpenAL
Referenced from: /Applications/DropTeam/DropTeam.app/Contents/MacOS/DropTeam
Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap
logout
[Process completed]

[TallyHo]

Thanks for the time, clayton. The problem looks obvious, but the remedy I dunno.

[ClaytoniousRex]

OpenAL is not installed on your system which is odd since it's now a core part of Tiger. First, go look in /System/Library/Frameworks and make sure that OpenAL.framework is indeed missing. If it is actually there then post again and we'll see why you can't access it.

If it's not there, and assuming you have root access, you can manually install the one included with DropTeam by doing this (I'm assuming from your earlier post that you're installed at /Applications/DropTeam instead of the normal /Applications):
</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">cd /Applications/DropTeam
sudo cp -r DropTeam.app/Contents/Frameworks/OpenAL.framework /System/Library/Frameworks/</pre>[/QUOTE]After that the game should run. Going forward, you might want to start looking into why OpenAL has been removed (or was always missing) from your system.

[TallyHo]

godsend.